It’s been a while! Let us know what you’re currently working on, what exploded, what cool stuff you found, or just brag that everything is running fine unattended.

I haven’t been doing a lot, renovate auto upgrades for patches and sometimes minor updates work great so far. I got involved in my union to spin up a mastodon server soon, so there’s a new project, but I already run mastodon so it shouldn’t be much of a deal, I just need to get comfortable with the infrastructure. I also set up ntfy but only sent some test notifications and didn’t configure any app yet - planned for Element Chat.

[Meta] I’m not sure how to apply the new tags. In the recent versions of this thread, people sometimes posted about their ollama setup or the like, but I’m not mentioning AI in the post body (except this meta thingy) and it shouldn’t be much of the discussion, but it’s an open post. Maybe curbstickle can chime in to let me know if I should apply one of them.

  • confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    Everything I have currently is pretty much working and maintaining itself. My logs are quiet and predictable. It’s been nice.

    I do have two things to do. One is it switch from iptables to nftables because podman is depreciating support for iptables. I absolutely hate working with firewalls, the syntax is always awful. For some reason ufw isn’t working with nftables like I hoped so now I’m working up the energy to learn nftables itself.

    The other thing to do is to update Alpine Linux to the latest release version. I’m trying to figure out how to properly update the cache of installed packages on my main computer. After that I should be able to run my upgrade script and things should take care of itself. I hope. With Alpine I usually wait a month or two after the initial release of a new version, things always seem to break if I update immediately and I don’t want to trouble shoot too many things.

    Other than that, I’ve gone back to making functional scripts again. Currently I am working on a new backup script that handles logging and automated rotation of backup snapshots. It’ll be POSIX portable and easy to integrate with crontab. It’s essentially the culmination of all my POSIX shell scripting knowledge. I just have to figure out one last and huge hurdle and I’ll be happy with the script.